This book is a logical extension of The Visual Basic 5
Coursebook. It covers some of the most popular advanced
features available in Visual Basic 5 Professional
Edition.
Here you learn to create three types of components
Visual Basic has to offer: ActiveX code components
(formerly known as OLE servers), ActiveX controls (formerly
OLE controls), and ActiveX documents. (This book is not
devoted to the additional ActiveX custom controls that come
with the Professional Edition.)
Since ActiveX is the old OLE technology with additional
Internet capabilities, it's logical to go beyond components
to reach out to the Internet. So the second half of Chapter
3 and the entire Chapter 4 are devoted to the Internet. The
coverage of Internet-related items, including HTML and
VBScript, are less than thorough. A few books are planned
to provide more in-depth coverage. See the backside of the
cover page for a list of these forthcoming books.
Each chapter starts by explaining how to do things and ends
with some lengthy examples. A companion disk contains the
source files for all the lengthier programs. The text
provides the file name at the beginning of each lengthy
code listing. These files are located in the following five
directories:
- Code
- Controls
- Doc
- Script
- Tutorials
These directories are closely tied to the book's chapter
numbers and titles. So if you want to access a file in
Chapter 2, for example, go to the specified file name in
the 2Controls directory.
Each chapter contains 20 Practice questions. All the
answers are supplied at the end of the questions. The
complex and lengthy source files are also available on
disk, in the directories shown above.
Contents
- ActiveX Code Components
- ActiveX Controls
- ActiveX Documents
- The Internet, HTML, and VBScript